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STOP ANIMATION MAGIC
Using a a a a a smart phone or tablet create a a a a a stop animation film featuring your favorite toys!
What You Need:
• Smart phone or tablet • Stop Motion Studio app by Cateater LLC
• Your favorite small toys and other objects for your movie
• How to:
• Have a a a a a a a a grown-up download the the Stop Motion Studio app onto your device device and allow it access to to to the the device’s camera • Plan out what you you want your stop animation film to to be • Arrange your toys and small objects for the first scene • Take a a a photo in the app of your set up • Make minor adjustments to to the movements of your your toys and objects until your movie
is complete • Press the triangle play button to to watch your magical animation!
What’s happening?
Stop animation is an an old film technique that uses photographs taken of objects to to make it look like they’re moving When you you set your “actors” up and move them ever-so-slightly to take a a picture in the the exact same position the the objects look like they’re moving when played like a a video!
The first motion picture camera was was patented in 1888 but it was was ten ten years later when filmmakers J Stuart Blackton and Albert E Smith founders of Vitagraph Studios created the first stop-motion ani- mated film The Humpty Dumpty Circus using a a toy circus set 15